The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-04
FLORIDA.
d Lake Weir wants a military company

! Lake Weir wants a military company
The cornerstone of the Methodist church
| at Altoona was laid Friday.
| Mr.. Bradford, State Engineer, is expected
daily to inspect the work of the Apopka
Canal Company.
The election on the liquor question in Vo-
lusia county will, probably, be called for
some time in October.
The LeConte pear trees of S. B. Thomas,
ST., of Madison, from which heavy crop
has been taken recently, are blooming again.
Three hundred and sixty dollars was
pledged by the citizens of Lake City to sup
plement the teachers salaries at the public
school.
The first sugar cane of the season made its
appearance in the Lake City market Satur-
} day, to the delight of the small boy and the
colored citizen.
Gov. Perry has requested the Executive
Committee to order a primary election for
Sheriff of Columbia county. Capt Sheffield
will act temporarily.
| Mr.. Arnold, the contractor, is at Halifax
putting down the telegraph poles for the
Jupiter telegraph line The wire will be
strung as fast as the poles are set
j. B. Speer, near Oakland, has Just housed
| 275 bushels of corn from about ten acres of
| ground. This is better than the average of
the corn acreage Of the State of Illinois.
| The prospects of raising money to build
| furniture factory at Gainesville are encour-
! aging. The mechanics of the town have
become interested in it and are taking stock
| John p. Wall telegraphs from Tampa as
| follows: "The statement in the Tampa 7if-
b,,ne that infected bedding from Egmont
Key was landed in Tampa is apositive false
hood"
There are several large farms in Columbia
hat al 4.
| in raising stock, and the citizens are begin
ming to turn their attention in that direc-
| ton.
| The officers Of the State troops at their
meeting Monday favored the first Monday
after the Fourth of July as the time aud
Magnolia Bluff as the place for the next en-
campment.
At Barlow Friday j. A. McCiiI, grocer,
| formerly of Uniontown, KY, was closed I'D
by attachment in favor of r. B.. Post &
Son, of New Orleans. Liabilities, $500; as
sets, nominal.
Negotiations for the sale of much real es-
tate near Dade City, are under considera-
ton. Several houses are now in process of
construction, and quite number are to be
built at an carly day.
The new arms for the Halifax Rifles have
arrived. The boys are now perfecting ar
rangements TO secure handsome dress uni
form, and next year, at the apntial encamp-
ment, will not be outshone in dress by any
of them.
On Tuesday, an execution was Issued by
the Clerk Of the Circuit Court Of Yolnsia
county against the rolling stock, roadbed
buildings and land grants of the Sc. Johns
and Halifax railway, in favor Of o. ID. G.
Bertola. for $3,4l0 GO, TO which the costs.
amounting to about 5000, are added.
A few days ago lady living a mile or
two out of Madison noticed her cows being
chased by two large and feroQous looking
dogs. She picked up her husbands rifle
and as one of the dogs came in range took
deliberate aim and pulled the trigger. She
was rewarded by seeing the brute fall to the
ground which soon died.
A negro man and woman, accompanied
by little girl, were walking across one of
the trestles of the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West railway just outside of Palatka
Tuesday when a train overlook them. All
jumped from the trestle about fifteen feet
TO the swamp below. No other injury than
spraining the child's ankle was suffered.
Frank Dunn, who IL serving an appren-
ticeship on Pensacola bar, and who as part
of his course, has made a voyage to sea re-
turned home Thursday He left Pensacola
last November on the American bark Silas
Fish, went to Havana. returned 10 Pensa.
cola, went thence 10 New Orleans thence 30
Tarragona, Spain, thence 30 Trapani, Sicily,
thence 10 Glouster, Mass, and then, by rail,
came home.
At Warrington, Friday, n large boat was
picked up by Ordnance Sergeant Thomas
Henry. United States army IN charge &C
Fort Pickena The boat was bottom 10 and
bad sail set. The soldiers. with the Sergeant
Leading weat ingo the surf 70 get Der out,